Rules governing stack purging

Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net
Mon Oct 30 14:17:33 EST 2006


That works here. Having accessed a cp in the stack in question, it  
shows up in the mainStacks, but not the openStacks.

However, <close stack "blah"> seems to purge it from memory just fine.

Best,

Mark

On 30 Oct 2006, at 20:07, Dave Cragg wrote:

>
> On 30 Oct 2006, at 18:28, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>>
>> The stack will not be in the openstacks, because technically it  
>> isn't open. It isn't listed in the "the mainstacks" either. The  
>> engine opens it silently and doesn't pass any messages to it when  
>> you are just accessing a property.
>
> Jacque, are you sure it isn't in the mainstacks. I modified teh  
> script I just posted as follows:
>
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "/Users/dave/Desktop/proptest.rev" into tStackFile
>
>   put the myProp of stack tStackFile into field 1
>   put the short name of stack  tStackFile into tShortname
>   put cr & (there is a stack tShortname) after field 1
>   put cr & (tShortname is among the lines of the mainstacks) after  
> field 1
>   delete stack tStackFile
>   put cr & (there is a stack tShortname) after field 1
>    put cr & (tShortname is among the lines of the mainstacks) after  
> field 1
>
> end mouseUp
>
> I now get
>
> true
> true
> false
> false
>
> And I seem to remember that Rev uses the mainstacks somewhere to  
> list all stacks in memory.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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